sandy in seconds. incredible. time-lapsed video from across the east river shows hurricane sandy slamming into manhattan. this takes two days and compresses it down into two minutes and shows the second the lights go out in lower manhattan and shows everything. really amazing. logon to our web side. go on to cnn.com/trends for all those top cnn trend. >> "early start" continues right now. >>> we're in shock. everybody is in shock. >> there's no words to put on what happened. we have to start over. >> three days since sandy and storm victims are struggling to recover. >> it is five days until election day. both candidates back on the road in the final battleground states. good morning to you. thanks for being with us this morning. i'm zoraida sambolin. >> i'm john berman. it is 6:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with the latest in the aftermath of that superstorm, the storm that was hurricane sandy. new york city is very slowly attempting to inch back to normal today. some subways and buses will be up and running agai